Top 100 Quotes About Teaching Teach
#1. Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
Taslima Nasrin
#2. London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.
Anna Quindlen
#3. Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
A.R. Ammons
#4. You never really know something until you teach it to someone else.
John C. Maxwell
#6. One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it.
Hermann Hesse
#7. The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
Carl Rogers
#8. The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
Margaret Mead
#10. My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
George Bernard Shaw
#11. We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!
Roy Moore
#13. Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
B.F. Skinner
#14. Don't beg for approval or expect respect. Respect comes from within and your choice to allow people to take it from you, by how you teach them to treat you.
Shannon L. Alder
#15. Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
Rosabeth Moss Kantor
#16. People need stories ... we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.
Jennifer Chiaverini
#17. You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.
Edward O. Wilson
#18. I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.
Bruce Coville
#19. You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo Galilei
#20. The master said:
I come not only to teach,
but to learn.
Learn first,
then teach;
that is wisdom.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#21. My job is to teach someone something they never knew, but it should not be like you're in a prisoner-of-war camp. I'm supposed to be teaching you but also entertaining you. You're giving me an hour of your time. It should be lively. We're on a hunt, it's a mystery, and it's amazing.
Bonnie Bassler
#22. I've always thought that good teaching is about illumination. Sure, we teach things kids might not know, but a lot of the time, we're just shedding light on the stuff they already know.
R.J. Palacio
#23. When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.
Carla H. Krueger
#24. Some kind of philosophy undergirds every movie, commercial, lecture, or book. Everything we take into our minds is trying to teach us something about how we should think the world is. (Life Hacks, p.83)
Jon Morrison
#25. I don't take off time from teaching to write. I take time off from writing to teach.
Steven Millhauser
#26. In our modern world, we often separate faith from practice. But the way of Jesus rejects this notion. Only living our faith offers the credibility to teach our faith. Anything less is less that the teachings of Christ.
Dillon Burroughs
#27. Nature will teach us many lessons if we take the time to visit her classroom.
Donald L. Hicks
#28. Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.
Horace
#30. The issue, then, is not, What is the best way to teach? but, What is mathematics really all about? ... Controversies about ... teaching cannot be resolved without confronting problems about the nature of mathematics.
Reuben Hersh
#31. Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
Horace Mann
#33. If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control.
Anonymous
#34. We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find many opportunities of teaching them important truths, almost without knowing.
Henry Kirke White
#35. We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.
Irene Tomkinson
#36. When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.
Elie Wiesel
#37. Teaching is different today. Teachers don't just stand at the board and lecture while the kids take notes. What we're ultimately teaching them is to teach themselves.
Tony Danza
#38. The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.
Michael Kiwanuka
#39. I do not teach students anything. I learn along with them.
John Marmysz
#40. Now that I've reached the ripe old age of retirement, I feel it my duty to teach you everything I've learnt about love, so listen closely. Love is like ... That's as far as I've gotten I'm afraid.
Ben Mitchell
#41. A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.
H.L. Mencken
#42. While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.
Erich Fromm
#43. It is better to enlighten men's minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#44. [...] it is rare for a
man who teaches to know his subject thoroughly;
for if he studies it as he ought, he has in most
cases no time left in which to teach it. [...]
Arthur Schopenhauer
#45. The more you teach your people to not need you, the greater your value.
John Stahl-Wert
#46. The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#47. The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.
Seymour Papert
#49. School does a great job of teaching students to do what we set out to teach them. It works. The problem is that what we're teaching is the wrong stuff. Here
Seth Godin
#50. [Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Jim Henson
#51. Teaching was never a vocation for me. Certainly I never aspired to teach people how to live. I was what used to be called a scholar. I wrote books about dead people. That was where my heart was. I taught only to make a living.
J.M. Coetzee
#52. It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching.
Octavia E. Butler
#53. When you don't know a thing, learn. When you know the truth, teach.
Debasish Mridha
#55. You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn.
Benjamin Franklin
#56. We teach best by how we live life; who we are instructs with absolute clarity.
Bryant McGill
#58. If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.
Austin O'Malley
#59. That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.
William Zinsser
#61. You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.
Gilbert Highet
#62. What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?
Roman Jakobson
#63. Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.
Pat Conroy
#64. Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle.
#65. In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down to be able to paint it and reproduce that color. But then, I'm psychedelic, so I look at color differently. I like colors that are in contrast with one another, so that they flicker back and forth.
John Van Hamersveld
#66. [S]cience has contributed a great deal to war and violence, and people well trained in science are sometimes not entirely rational and are even dogmatic. We have to find a way to teach reflectively, not just scientifically.
Nel Noddings
#67. To reduce violence, stop teaching how to find differences and teach unconditional kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#68. I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.
Danica McKellar
#69. It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.
John Grisham
#70. It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.
Mark Twain
#71. The most fruitful and worthwhile thing I have ever done has been to teach.
Harvey Dunn
#72. We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
Oswald Chambers
#73. One doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything ... nor ought one to blame others.
Charles Darwin
#74. I love teaching. If I made a trillion dollars, I would still teach. It's different every day. You get to meet intelligent people all the time - or at least most of the time.
Richard Bausch
#75. I cannot teach
if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear.
James Tiptree Jr.
#76. When our responses turn into reactions and we set out to teach people a lesson, we lose. We lose because the act of teaching someone a lesson rarely succeeds at changing them, and always fails at making our day better, or our work more useful.
Seth Godin
#77. Teach men how to fish, but also teach them how to preserve fish.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#78. Now's the time to teach your 5-year-old kid about financing. If they can add, I suggest that you start teaching them about saving that money. And how their money can add up in the future. I think the more you prepare your children for the future, the better off they'll be.
Donald Faison
#80. Is it any wonder that Socrates was outraged at the accusation he took money to teach? Even then, philosophers saw clearly the inevitable direction the professionalization of teaching would take, that of pre-empting the teaching function, which, in a healthy community, belongs to everyone.
John Taylor Gatto
#81. You best teach others about healthy boundaries by enforcing yours on them.
Bryant McGill
#82. Those things that you just do, if you put that together in a DVD program, let's say, for $97, to teach people how to do that. Well, if you sold 100 of those a month, that's $9,700 of income a month just teaching what you already do and know to people who want to learn how to do the same.
Brendon Burchard
#83. Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.
Robert S. Kaplan
#84. Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.
Rudyard Kipling
#85. For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.
W.C. Sellar
#86. Why do we teach our children to hate others when there are so many options to love? Why do we teach hate when kindness, compassion, tolerance, and harmony add such beauty to life?
Debasish Mridha
#87. I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of proverbs for class discussion and writing assignments.
Marva Collins
#88. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus the other.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#89. What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.
T.F. Hodge
#90. Do you need to "find time to teach"? Of course not---you have a teaching schedule, and you never miss it. [...] Finding time is a destructive way of thinking about writing. Never say this again. Instead of finding time to write, allot time to write.
Paul J. Silvia
#91. Life is not trying to entertain us, it's trying to teach us.
Seth Adam Smith
#93. Teach all men to fish, but first teach all men to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourself, take less from the world. Nobody owes you anything, you owe the world everything.
Suzy Kassem
#94. Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.
John Taylor Gatto
#95. When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.
M. Scott Peck
#97. Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice.
Eckhart Tolle
#98. Not yet. But Mr. Poe is teaching me lots of things. Tonight he's going to teach me the power of sleep.
Lucian Bane
#99. If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#100. It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently.
Andre Maurois
